Understanding Public Policy
Abstract
1: Policy Analysis: What Governments Do, Why They Do It, and What Difference it Makes 2: Models of Politics: Some Help in Thinking About Public Policy 3: The Policymaking Process: Decision-Making Activities 4: Policy Evaluation: Finding Out What Happens After a Law Is Passed 5: Federalism and State Policies: Institutional Arrangements and Policy Variations 6: Criminal Justice: Rationality and Irrationality in Public Policy 7: Welfare: The Search for Rational Strategies 8: Health Care: Attempting A Rational-Comprehensive Transformation 9: Education: Group Struggles 10: Economic Policy: Challenging Incrementalism 11: Tax Policy: Battling the Special Interests 12: International Trade and Immigration: Elite-Mass Conflict 13: Energy and the Environment: Externalities and Interests 14: Civil Rights: Elite and Mass Interaction 15: Defense Policy: Strategies for Serious Games 16: Homeland Security: Terrorism and Nondeterrable Threats